Link to the poll mentioned.

A good break down of the other polls done by Yougov on this subject by youtuber Phil Moorhouse.

My personal opinion is that Labour do not want to talk about Brexit until they can stop the Tory media telling lies on the subject. We will only get one shot at reversing this fiasco, so they want to get it right. With Labour I agree on this. Let it lie until we can have some actual facts on the matter. Any discussions with current media throwing in their bias is swayed by those who have pocketed billions from the Misery imposed over Brexit.

  • DarkGamer
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    If only they were warned about the consequences… oh right, “project fear.”

    The UK had a privileged place in the EU before they blew it up over, as best I can tell, fear of foreigners, (which is curious given that immigration is now at record levels.) It’s not often that one gets to see a world power commit suicide over irrational xenophobia.

    • @SyldonOP
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      You realise that most wars are fought over irrational xenophobia. Xenophobia is the easiest button to push for the populist vote.

      • TheMongoose
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        Sure, but we didn’t go to war with another country, we just stuck a screwdriver in our own ear and kept twisting it.

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          tbf any time people vote for a party that fearmongers about foreigners it’s equivalent to them kicking themselves in the nuts, like at best it only results in yet more money being taken from the voters and put into the pockets of the wealthy

    • @catch22@startrek.website
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      Project fear, or where it refers to the supposed remainders in the Tory party is also lies. They were all in on it, suppressing reports on how bad it would be and trying to avoid EU tax regulations.

      Cameron, May, all of them wanted it. It was a proper The Sting level big con. They are the slippiest of cunts. This isn’t a bad article

      https://medium.com/the-jist/was-eu-tax-evasion-regulation-the-reason-for-the-brexit-referendum-980ba88a8077

  • Jaysyn
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    Yet the Tories are still running the trash heap.

    • Tenebris Nox
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      And if they can pull a “Falklands” in the next 12 months may keep their eternal grip on power. War with… er… Greece… over some ancient… oh… Greek statues… anyone?

  • @rayquetzalcoatl
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    “until they can stop the Tory media telling lies on the subject” good luck getting a Tory to tell any truth ever; the dirty lying little weirdos can’t help themselves

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      Boris Johnson (on camera): “there are no cameras here”

      Man (pointing) “there’s one right there!”

      Lying. It’s like breathing for these assholes.

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        remember that time a monsanto shill unhesitatingly said yes to drinking weed killer only for his brain to catch up seconds later and hurriedly say “not really of course” because it’s fucking WEED KILLER? these people are literally so used to bald-facedly lying about the most obvious shit that it’s reflexive to them.

        https://youtu.be/uh8lxKrFmQs

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    My personal opinion is that Labour do not want to talk about Brexit until they can stop the Tory media telling lies on the subject. We will only get one shot at reversing this fiasco, so they want to get it right.

    Labour don’t want to talk about Brexit because they’re already on course to win the election by a landslide, so why do anything different to exactly what they’re already doing? It’s not about only getting one shot to get this right, it’s just profound risk aversion. Labour’s preferred outcome is for literally nothing to change in the political debate between today and election day.

    Remember though that polling has shown for some time that, if a Rejoin referendum was held tomorrow, Rejoin would win comfortably. So Labour will be forced to change their approach on this when (probably sometime during the next parliament) the Lib Dems start getting more vocal on Rejoin, causing Labour to start bleeding votes to them - at which point the risk averse thing for Labour to do will now be to start talking about the issues that matter to the moderate pro-EU majority.

    It’ll be a repeat of what happened with the People’s Vote campaign, where Labour failed to entertain the idea right up until the 2019 EU elections, where they finished 3rd behind the Lib Dems, losing even in solid-red Labour heartlands like Islington, which forced Labour to have to catch up with where Labour voters already were on this issue.

    • TheMongoose
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      Labour don’t want to talk about Brexit because they’re already on course to win the election by a landslide

      Are they? Do they have any major policies or plans at all, or are they just relying on “well at least we’re not the Tories, right?”

      I realise I don’t read the news much any more (because it’s depressing AF), but I’ve not seen anything to make me think the morons that voted for Brexit, and then confirmed it by voting in Johnson would do anything different this time around. Sure, they’re turkeys voting for Christmas, but they’ve done it twice, why assume they’ll learn the error of their ways?

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        They’ve been polling around 20pts clear of the Tories for a long time. The Tories’ numbers are hovering around the mid-20s, which is a level at which FPTP can lead to some really lop-sided outcomes. Some of the polls over the last year have even implied the Tories ending up the 3rd or 4th party in Westminster.

        • TheMongoose
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          Well, I’ll believe it when I see it. But please, just give me a minute to sit back and enjoy that mental image…

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      Labour don’t want to talk about Brexit because they’re already on course to win the election by a landslide

      I’m afraid I’m a little sceptical of Labour winning. Not because I don’t want them to win but because the voting in this country is fucked.

      General election 2019, Boris got a “landslide” victory with “the largest ever vote for a single party” at 43% of the vote.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election

      The system is so fucked that Corbyn had 30% of the vote and still Labour lost 60 seats.

      In 2015 the Tories kept power under Cameron with only 36% of the vote.

      If a third of the population still think that Brexit has been a success, and you have to add the small handful of “always support Tory”, then there may be still enough people in this place to keep them going because absolute numbers don’t count, it’s all about how well they are clustered.

      Untill they are all kicked out, I don’t know if I could believe it even if they announced that Labour has the majority of MPs.

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        Do you not looking at polling when you make statements like that? Labour have for some time been polling in the 40s, and the Tories polling in the 20s, and FPTP is brutal when you get that sort of polling differential.

        If you take this week’s latest YouGov poll (Lab 45%, Con 22%, Lib Dem 9%, etc) and plug it into Flavible, it gives a result of Lab 423 seats, Con 107, SNP 54, Lib Dem 40. This would represent a considerably worse defeat for the Conservatives than even 1997.

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          And I hope it is a massive defeat that takes them decades to recover.

          However I have seen polling in the past election where May was going to get destroyed, where Brexit was unlikely, where Corbyn was going to be PM. A poll is just a poll.

          Until we get the real numbers through I’m not going to hold my breath. This country has shown time and time again that we are great at picking the really stupid option.

    • @SyldonOP
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      I think we both agree that the opinion of the swing seats is a driving force of the Labour/Starmer narrative. Although Labour did not finish 3rd in the 2019 election, or am I missing something with “the people’s vote”.

  • @Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    So about a third of the country are morons, but can you get your government to only consist of one third morons?

    • @SyldonOP
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      That one third estimate seems very consistent for a lot polls I am seeing this year. I put it down to the audience who listen and accept the lies of GBnews, TalkTV and the multitude to far right paper media. My opinion is that a third of the country are living in an echo chamber of bullshit. They are convincing the turkeys to vote for Christmas. We need a Leveson enquiry 2.0.

    • @SyldonOP
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      Some have done well out of Brexit. They are just not the run of the mill man on the street. Brexit was always a con to rob the poor.

      • Tenebris Nox
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        Living in an insanely pro-Brexit area, the usual comments are either: “Best thing we ever did. We control our borders now.” or “We’re not going to talk about it. Democracy won.” I think if the referendum was run again the results would be the same - or a bigger Brexit majority. The crazies in my area are obsessed with “illegals”.

  • Throwaway
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    Well wasnt like the main point too many immigrants from the EU, and now theres even more?

    Id consider it sabotage at that point.

    • SonnyVabitch
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      There wasn’t a main point. It was advertised to every group as the solution to their specific grievance, like more money to the NHS, less immigration, less crime, cheaper housing, you name it. If you didn’t like something, it was the EU’s fault, if you did, we could do more of it without the EU shackles.

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        • SonnyVabitch
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          Did you mean to reply that to me? I’m not sure what edit you’re referring to.

          • @SyldonOP
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            I am guessing a time stamp error, or I misread it. I will delete the comment.

    • @SyldonOP
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      Brexit was sabotaged?